A double quote even if escaped is throwing parse error.
look at the code below
//parse the json in javascript
var testJson = '{"result": ["lunch", "\"Show\""] }';
var tags = JSON.parse(testJson);
alert (tags.result[1]);
This is throwing parse error because of the double quotes (which are already escaped).
Even eval() won't work here.
But if i escape it with double slashes like this:
var result = '{"result": ["lunch", "\\"Show\\""] }';
var tags = JSON.parse(result);
alert (tags.result[1]);
then it works fine.
Why do we need to use double slash here in javascript?
The problem is that PHP json_encode() function escapes a double quote with a single slash (like this: \"show\") which JSON.parse won't be able to parse. How do i handle this situation?